The first day of class has always presented something of a dilemma for me, and the contribution offered here is a suggestion for dealing with the first day of an Introduction to Politics course. This class centers around a lone textbook (Magstadt and Schotten's Understanding Politics, St. Martin's Press) and is designed to introduce government majors and nonmajors alike to the broad range of questions examined by political scientists. In this respect the course is similar to any number of other introduction courses, and colleagues tell me that they have been able to use a variant of the idea presented here in their own introductions to Sociology, Criminal Justice, or History.